But this year's Black Friday was also huge for online sales. ComScore is reporting that e-commerce sales for the Friday after Thanksgiving surged 26 percent over the previous year, surpassing $1 billion for the first time. The ComScore folks are now calling Black Friday -- in retail-speak -- a "multi-channel marketing phenomenon."

Even online shopping on Thanksgiving day is growing, up 32 percent this year to $633 million, according to ComScore.

A company that uses biometric technology to verify travelers' identities through fingerprint and iris scans will launch its security clearance services for enrolled members at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport starting next month.

Amazon.com will launch its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in the coming weeks in some parts of Baltimore, taking advantage of the pending opening of its massive new distribution center near Canton.

The publishers of Wikipedia and several rights groups became the latest plaintiffs to challenge the National Security Agency's surveillance programs in court, alleging that the Fort Meade-based organization conducts "mass Internet spying" on Americans' international emails and other online...

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Cholbam, developed by Baltimore biotechnology company Asklepion Pharmaceuticals, for treatment of a rare disease that prevents people from making key digestive acids.

Social media isn't new anymore, so you'd think people would be able to do it by now without making really bad mistakes. And not just any mistakes, but the kinds that leave you speechless. With that, here are actual social media posts from 2014 you have to see to believe.